Boxcar Sunday, Let's see your boxcars.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Please “HUMOR” me, and spell Good Humor correctly. It ain’t Good Humer.

Sorry and thanks Mark. I posted at 3:00 am after waking up with terrible heart burn from a chili cookoff the night before.

A few cars I finished this week…

Weaver and MTH repaints…

Tom

Continuing my south of the border kick...

and the GA&FLA:

Here's an observation/question for boxcars:

The GA&FLA OB boxcar above is a repainted Crown model.  K4 Decals were used.  The placement diagram from K4 shows opposite diagonal brace placement to that of the Crown model, meaning L side of car has diagonals going NE to SW and R side has NW to SE.  I did a quick search on the net and found that the overwhelming number of OB boxcar photos agree with the K4 diagram and the Crown model design is an outlier.  Makes placing decals appropriately interesting.  Any thoughts out there?

Cheers,

Price

@The Shadow posted:

Ah the long arm of the grammar police… and if it’s good for one, it’s good for all.  Does that make it “humerus”????

@Mark V. Spadaro and @The Shadow - are you two doctors going to make bone jokes now? 

Asking for a friend. 

George

Coors is a nice car for the weekend!

@mike g. posted:

Coors is a nice car for the weekend!

Good looking cars Mike! Coors lite is my go-to draft beer.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Good looking cars Mike! Coors lite is my go-to draft beer.

Same here Dave as most already know! LOL When I get a new layout I will have to make a Coors light box car!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Mel could you please post a pic, juxtaposing the MTH cars with your Crown Models car, for size comparison? Thanks.

Mark,

Body lengths are 10-1/4 inches (41 feet).

Heights of roofwalks are 3-7/16 inches for New Haven Dairy GICX 300 (13 feet 9 inches) and 3-1/2 inches (14 feet) for New Haven 78000.

Widths over eaves are 2-1/4 inches (9 feet).

Depths of car sides are 2-1/4 inches (9 feet) for New Haven Dairy GICX 300 and 2-1/2 inches (10 feet) for New Haven 78000.

MELGAR

Here's a Lionel Erie PS-1 40' Boxcar that I modified with Kadee couplers and weathered...

Here are two boxcars for box car Sunday.

Thanks, Mel!

@MELGAR posted:

Bill,

Where and when did you get that model? Terrific!

Did you ever see one?

MELGAR

Mel, I believe these are Atlas. I picked them up from a seller at The Train Doctors side walk sale last Spring. The were unboxed. He wanted $40 each; he took $90 for the 3.

@B Smith posted:

@The Shadow posted:

Ah the long arm of the grammar police… and if it’s good for one, it’s good for all.  Does that make it “humerus”????

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but a misspelling is not actually a "grammatical" error.    One's grammar can be correct, even though the words are misspelled.

Let’s keep it train related.

Young couple going on vacation.

@The Shadow posted:

Here's an observation/question for boxcars:

The GA&FLA OB boxcar above is a repainted Crown model.  K4 Decals were used.  The placement diagram from K4 shows opposite diagonal brace placement to that of the Crown model, meaning L side of car has diagonals going NE to SW and R side has NW to SE.  I did a quick search on the net and found that the overwhelming number of OB boxcar photos agree with the K4 diagram and the Crown model design is an outlier.  Makes placing decals appropriately interesting.  Any thoughts out there?

Cheers,

Price

Here is another car I did with K-4 decals…just for comparison…

Many sharp looking box cars today for sure.  I would be hard pressed to pick one as best. Thanks for posting guys.

@CNJ #1601 posted:

Here's a Lionel Erie PS-1 40' Boxcar that I modified with Kadee couplers and weathered...

And you did a fine job of it!

Just finished this plug door boxcar.  It’s built on a shortened in height All Nation body with new styrene sides.  Ive been wanting this car for a long time to add to my BAR fleet. Weathering tomorrow .

@Brother_Love posted:

And you did a fine job of it!

Thank you, Malcolm!

My boxcar contribution for this fine Sunday!  " A boxcar in its' natural habitat."   A boxcar load of transformers destined for the local power company arrive in GN boxcar 8622.  

This is a Weaver boxcar that I weathered.

Here is a MTH 20-99384 Missouri Pacific 50 foot purchased at Berwyn's Trains. I especially like it because my Moms family is from Missouri and my Dads from Illinois.

Lionel NYC Double Door Boxcar

I ran three New York boxcars - New York Central #92102, NYC #161523, and Schaefer Beer NJHR #21 (brewery located in Brooklyn) - behind New York Central SW1500 #9654.

MELGAR

In honor of St. Paddy, Lionel

Well for "Boxcar Sunday" I thought I would start off with an Ice Cream Truck to go with your boxcar Dave!  Gotta get those ice cream bars out to the customers.

Here is a Lionel #6468-25 New Haven double door automobile car from 1956-1958 for today.

Best wishes for a great week.  HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Don

One car of six. I completed this one last night. We have to wait to see the rest! lol…

Tom

Here are two Bessemer and Lake Erie box cars.

These are two box cars made by the Weaver Train Co.  I would like to thank each one of you that said you liked these two box cars,

In honor of St. Paddy’s Day!!! The item on the bottom is a beer foam scraper. In the early 20th century, my mother’s family ran a bar on Nevins Street in downtown Brooklyn (it became a speakeasy during prohibition). The car is MTH. The scraper is one of four items from the bar that survive.

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is a Lionel #6468-25 New Haven double door automobile car from 1956-1958 for today.

Best wishes for a great week.  HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Don

Neat, Don… gotta’ love the New Haven. I am the caretaker of my brother’s and cousin’s Lionel trains from the late 50’s/early 60’s. My brother’s set included a 6468-25 and my cousin’s included a single door 6464-425.

Sláinte!!!

Enjoy your Boxcar Sunday. This video reminds me of a 1950s Kodak film. PW Lionel NYC 2344 from 50-52 blazing by.

@Sitka- Wow neat video, those boys are really high ball en!

@Apples55 - Thanks for the comments Paul, I have not ever managed to connect with the 6464-425 but I am always looking! Its great that you are keeping those special trains in the family.

Best Wishes

Don

Here are most of mine:

MTH Premier B&O boxcar from Charlie's Valley Farm Market in Weedville Pa.

God speed all.

Here's my contribution for this fine  Sunday!    Here's a video I took this afternoon while testing out a newly installed curve section on my layout .  Here's my C&O  0-8-0 pulling string of well weathered  boxcars including my new Lionel Monon sound boxcar with hobo playing harmonica which I purchased from Mr. Muffin.

@Sitka posted:

Enjoy your Boxcar Sunday. This video reminds me of a 1950s Kodak film. PW Lionel NYC 2344 from 50-52 blazing by.

Keep rattlin' them dishes, Mark! Just don't knock 'em off the shelves, though, or you'll catch it from the boss!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Keep rattlin' them dishes, Mark! Just don't knock 'em off the shelves, though, or you'll catch it from the boss!

  Will do Bill, I'll just tell her to buy more Well they were rolling much slower for some reason when doing a video they look faster, LOL or was it the beer

@Sitka- Hey, in response to your question above...I vote for the beer!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Sitka- Hey, in response to your question above...I vote for the beer!

Don

Roger that